Hi
I bought a new laptop HP dv9500 just a week ago and installed a Ubuntu
gutsy ribbon on this laptop. I wanted to install Fedora but there are
more threads on Ubuntu, so I decided to install Ubuntu. After hours of
struggle in configuring x server/graphic card stuff, I installed R for
Gutsy ribbon using "sudo apt-get install g77 r-core'.
Now when I tried to install 'sp' package I got this error message:
Warning in install.packages("sp") : argument 'lib' is missing:
using
'/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
trying URL 'http://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/sp_0.9-17.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 359194 bytes
opened URL
=================================================downloaded 350Kb
* Installing *source* package 'sp' ...
** libs
gcc-4.2 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -I/usr/share/R/include
-fpic -g -O2 -c gcdist.c -o gcdist.o
/bin/bash: gcc-4.2: command not found
make: *** [gcdist.o] Error 127
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'sp'
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/sp'
The downloaded packages are in
/tmp/RtmpfOk3H7/downloaded_packages
Warning message:
installation of package 'sp' had non-zero exit status in:
install.packages("sp")
Then, I removed this gutsy ribbon version of R and attempted to install
fresh R-2.6.1.tar.gz. When I tried to build it, I got this error
message:
configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not
available
I installed xserver-xorg-dev ok.
I am using Fedora 6 on my desktop and have never seen these above error
messages. Should I install a Fedora and R on it? Or should I just create
a link using 'ln -s'?
I appreciate your help.
Have a festive holiday!
taka
Taka You might want to try R-SIG-Debian for this kind of question. Here are instructions from Dirk in response to my similar question a few days ago. HTH, Paul _________________ On 12 December 2007 at 18:17, Paul Gilbert wrote: | I'm trying to build R from source on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. I've done | apt-get install r-base-dev and apt-get libX11-dev, but R configure is You're close: 'r-base-dev' gives you (about) everything to run 'install.package()' once you have R; libX11-dev ought to give you everything but somehow doesn't so ... | still complaining about X11 headers/libs are not available. What else | do I need? ... use the 'apt-get build-dep $package' command, ie $ sudo apt-get build-dep r-base which will pull in this list (as per the current Debian unstable package): Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.1.0), g++ (>= 4:4.1.0), gfortran (>= 4:4.1.0), refblas3-dev | atlas3-base-dev, tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev, bison, groff-base, libncurses5-dev, libreadline5-dev, debhelper (>= 5.0.0), texi2html, texinfo (>= 4.1-2), libbz2-dev, libpcre3-dev, tetex-bin, tetex-extra, xpdf-reader, zlib1g-dev, libpng12-dev, libjpeg62-dev, libx11-dev, libxt-dev, x-dev So in this particular case, libxt-dev and x-dev were still missing. 'apt-get build-dep $foo' is really convenient. Try 'apt-get source $foo' as well to get sources (if you have entries like deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free I use that all the time to fetch Debian sources onto Ubuntu machines at work. It may at times conflict with what packages Ubuntu has, or what names they used -- but for R and one or two dozen other Debian packages it has always been useful for me on Ubuntu too. Cheers, Dirk Takatsugu Kobayashi wrote:> Hi > > I bought a new laptop HP dv9500 just a week ago and installed a Ubuntu > gutsy ribbon on this laptop. I wanted to install Fedora but there are > more threads on Ubuntu, so I decided to install Ubuntu. After hours of > struggle in configuring x server/graphic card stuff, I installed R for > Gutsy ribbon using "sudo apt-get install g77 r-core'. > > Now when I tried to install 'sp' package I got this error message: > > Warning in install.packages("sp") : argument 'lib' is missing: using > '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' > --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- > Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done > trying URL 'http://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/sp_0.9-17.tar.gz' > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 359194 bytes > opened URL > =================================================> downloaded 350Kb > > * Installing *source* package 'sp' ... > ** libs > gcc-4.2 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -I/usr/share/R/include > -fpic -g -O2 -c gcdist.c -o gcdist.o > /bin/bash: gcc-4.2: command not found > make: *** [gcdist.o] Error 127 > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'sp' > ** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/sp' > > The downloaded packages are in > /tmp/RtmpfOk3H7/downloaded_packages > Warning message: > installation of package 'sp' had non-zero exit status in: > install.packages("sp") > > Then, I removed this gutsy ribbon version of R and attempted to install > fresh R-2.6.1.tar.gz. When I tried to build it, I got this error > message: > > configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not > available > > I installed xserver-xorg-dev ok. > > I am using Fedora 6 on my desktop and have never seen these above error > messages. Should I install a Fedora and R on it? Or should I just create > a link using 'ln -s'? > > I appreciate your help. > > Have a festive holiday! > > taka > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.=================================================================================== La version fran?aise suit le texte anglais. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email may contain privileged and/or confidential in...{{dropped:26}}
Hi Taka,
I was just trying to do this yesterday and ran into the same problem (compiling
R 2.6.1 on Gutsy Gibbon). Apparently this happens on Debian/Ubuntu distributions
because the developer install is separate from the user install.
Basically, to address the configure error:
"--with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are not available"
you need the development version of readline:
sudo apt-get install libreadline5-dev
(see http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html)
Later, I ran into another configure error:
"--with-x=yes (default) and X11 headers/libs are not available"
so I installed xorg-dev:
sudo apt-get install xorg-dev
(see http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/06/11/5193.html)
At the end, I also got a configure WARNING:
"you cannot build info or HTML versions of the R manuals "
so then I installed texinfo:
sudo apt-get install texinfo
(see http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/07/04/15498.html)
Hope this helps,
ST
----- Original Message ----
From: Takatsugu Kobayashi <tkobayas at indiana.edu>
To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2007 10:52:11 AM
Subject: Re: [R] R Compilation error on Ubuntu
Hi
I bought a new laptop HP dv9500 just a week ago and installed a Ubuntu
gutsy ribbon on this laptop. I wanted to install Fedora but there are
more threads on Ubuntu, so I decided to install Ubuntu. After hours of
struggle in configuring x server/graphic card stuff, I installed R for
Gutsy ribbon using "sudo apt-get install g77 r-core'.
Now when I tried to install 'sp' package I got this error message:
Warning in install.packages("sp") : argument 'lib' is missing:
using
'/usr/local/lib/R/site-library'
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
trying URL 'http://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/sp_0.9-17.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 359194 bytes
opened URL
=================================================downloaded 350Kb
* Installing *source* package 'sp' ...
** libs
gcc-4.2 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -I/usr/share/R/include
-fpic -g -O2 -c gcdist.c -o gcdist.o
/bin/bash: gcc-4.2: command not found
make: *** [gcdist.o] Error 127
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'sp'
** Removing '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/sp'
The downloaded packages are in
/tmp/RtmpfOk3H7/downloaded_packages
Warning message:
installation of package 'sp' had non-zero exit status in:
install.packages("sp")
Then, I removed this gutsy ribbon version of R and attempted to install
fresh R-2.6.1.tar.gz. When I tried to build it, I got this error
message:
configure: error: --with-readline=yes (default) and headers/libs are
not
available
I installed xserver-xorg-dev ok.
I am using Fedora 6 on my desktop and have never seen these above error
messages. Should I install a Fedora and R on it? Or should I just
create
a link using 'ln -s'?
I appreciate your help.
[[replacing trailing spam]]
taka
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